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Fifth Avenue Place (Pittsburgh)

Coordinates: 40°26′31″N 80°00′12″W / 40.44194°N 80.00333°W / 40.44194; -80.00333
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Fifth Avenue Place
View of Fifth Avenue Place from Mount Washington
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General information
TypeOffice
Location120 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh
Coordinates40°26′31″N 80°00′12″W / 40.44194°N 80.00333°W / 40.44194; -80.00333
Construction started1985
Completed1988
Cost$100 million ($293.3 million today)[1]
Height
Roof616 ft (188 m)
Technical details
Floor count31
Design and construction
Architect(s)Stubbins Associates
DeveloperHillman Associates

Fifth Avenue Place (originally "Hillman Tower", sometimes called Highmark Place for its major tenant) is a skyscraper in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. United States.

The building was completed on April 14, 1988[2] and it has 31 floors. Located at the corner of Liberty Avenue and Fifth Avenue, it rises 616 feet (188 m) above Downtown Pittsburgh. The structure is made up of a unique granite frame for roughly the first 450 feet (140 m), then collapses inward in a pyramidal shape for another 124-foot-tall (38 m) roof structure. The roof utilizes four prisms clad in granite and encloses a penthouse area that stores the mechanics for the building as well as the cooling towers. Before Highmark's branding of the top of the tower, there were video screens at the base of the decorative summit of the building.

Protruding from the top of the skyscraper is a 178-foot-tall (54 m) mast manufactured by Meyer Industry of Minnesota. Despite its rounded appearance, the 13-story steel structure is actually 12-sided and measures four feet in diameter. Due to high winds, the mast allows for up to three feet of sway. The height at the top of the mast represents the intended height for the building when it was in development. However, the city decided that that height would not fit in well with the skyline, so the height of the main structure was restricted to what it is today.[3]

Shopping center

Commercial space on two floors

There is a shopping center with two floors.[4] [5]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Google News Archive Search". Retrieved 25 March 2016.
  2. ^ "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Google News Archive Search". Retrieved 25 March 2016.
  3. ^ "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Google News Archive Search". Retrieved 25 March 2016.
  4. ^ "Fifth Avenue Place - Downtown Pittsburgh's premier shopping and office complex!". Fifthavenueplacepa.com. Retrieved 2016-03-25.
  5. ^ "Fifth Avenue Place Arcade Shops | Pittsburgh, PA 15222 | Entertainment Districts in Pittsburgh, PA". Visitpittsburgh.com. Retrieved 2016-03-25.

Further reading

  • Toker, Franklin (2007). Buildings of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh: Chicago: Society of Architectural Historians; Santa Fe: Center for American Places ; Charlottesville: In association with the University of Virginia Press. ISBN 0-8139-2650-5.

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Preceded by Pittsburgh Skyscrapers by Height
616 feet (188 m)
31 floors 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Pittsburgh Skyscrapers by Year of Completion
1988 		Succeeded by


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